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Deploying remote laboratories at a large scale is the next challenge in remote experimentation. It is referred as Massive Open Online Labs (MOOLs). Being able to sustain a massive number of users accessing a specific resource concurrently is a complex task. This paper presents technical solutions, currently deployed, to implement such a remote lab in a MOOC. The control system lab deployed in edX, where more that 200 students access concurrently a farm of 20 electrical drives, is used as an example. Gamification mechanisms which accommodate even more students are proposed.

International audience; transHumUs is an artistic work recently exhibited at the 56th Venice Biennale. The work aims at freeing trees from their roots. How to translate this poetic ambition into technological terms? This paper reports on the setup and the implementation of the project. It shows how state of the art mobile robotics technology can contribute to contemporary art development. The challenge has been to design original mobile platforms carrying charges of three tones, while moving noiseless according to tree metabolism, in operational spaces populated by visitors.

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International audience; Hands-on laboratory sessions are one of the pillarsof science and engineering education. It is reputed that institutionsfind it difficult to provide enough laboratory setups thatcover all taught scientific topics due to logistical and budgetarylimitations. With the recent advances in web technologies enablingreal-time interaction, remotely accessing physical devicesbecame possible, and so the rise of remote experimentation asa solution to the mentioned limitations. The development anddeployment of remote laboratories is still a tedious process forlab providers, given the need to write new applications for eachnew lab. In this paper, we propose a software template for labproviders that will alleviate some of their concerns by followingthe Smart Device Paradigm and Specifications and abiding tosoftware engineering rules to produce a reusable and flexiblesolution. We will show how this in-progress template can be usedfor implementing a remote Mach-Zehnder Interferometer.

Part of topic : Projecting and manufacturing the ambiances of tomorrow; International audience; Our living ambiances are about to change their structural character in a decisive way: Intelligent technologies are increasingly invading our traditionally stable and static habitats and turn them into responsive environments with additional technology driven dynamcis – such intelligent ambiences seem to be the future of our everyday life environment. Their design and their impact on our bodily experience is still an open research field, in which ‘atmosphere’ and ‘ambience’ seem to become core notions that demand new models of the human-environment relationship. Our current artistic research project tries to model a responsive environment in which people can explore and experience the epistemological and behavioural impact of new technologies.

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International audience; Malgré des textes plutôt favorables dans la plupart des pays du monde, la scolarisation des élèves à besoins éducatifs particuliers reste encore trop souvent l’affaire « des autres », professionnels de la difficulté scolaire, du handicap ou de la maladie(Quef, 2008), ou encore militants de l’inclusion scolaire (Berzin, 2007).Ce renvoi aux spécialistes s’ancre dans une réalité historique car, avant d’être, au moins dans la loi, l’affaire de tous, ces élèves ont longtemps été pris en charge par le secteur médical ou et les associations caritatives. En France, presque 10 ans après la loi du 11 février 2005 qui pose le droit de tout enfant handicapé à bénéficier d’une scolarité ordinaire, les inquiétudes des professionnels de l’éducation sont avant tout liées au sentiment de ne pas être capables d’accueillir ces élèves, voire de les mettre en danger par des pratiques inadaptées (Plaisance, 2009).La question de la formation est donc cruciale pour passer de l’ « expérience » à une pratique ordinaire. Chaque classe de chaque école devrait être concernée par l’accueil de ces élèves si l’on reprend les statistiques (OCDE, 2008; Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS) & Banque Mondiale, 2012). Nous présentons ci-dessous les éléments qui nous semblent nécessaires aux professionnels pour agir dans le cadre d’une école inclusive et, en conséquence, la formation à mettre en œuvre.

International audience; Sustainability is an essential part of the work of publishers. Here, the view of an open access publisher, MDPI, is presented with regards to sustainability within publishing. MDPI’s understanding of sustainability is given and some of the concrete actions it leads to. These include supporting umbrella initiatives, exploring alternative business and editorial models, elements of open science, and ensuring the long-term sustainability of published content. Our aim is to demonstrate actions that could be taken by other publishers and to invite dialog with the broader research community for how a large open access publisher can contribute to a sustainable knowledge ecosystem.

Developing educational apps that cover a wide range of learning contexts and languages is a challenging task. In this paper, we introduce the AppComposer Web app to address this issue. The AppComposer aims at empowering teachers to easily translate and adapt existing apps that fit their educational contexts. Developers do not need to provide extensive translations and configurations of their apps and can simply follow certain guidelines to make their apps translatable and adaptable by the AppComposer. Since the AppComposer makes use of the standard internationalization specification used by OpenSocial, even external apps can be translated without contacting the original developer.